The third article is an overview of the period of 1900 to 1950. Even the growing complexity of the social landscape failed to shake the structure of power in the community. Shipping liquor into the United States during the Prohibition years of the early 1920s, selling land, developing amenities for tourists, and other economic activities gave rise to a group of newly-minted rich local men, most of them white or near-white. The traditional elite accepted those men who were not quite white and absorbed them into its ranks.
Immigrants of Chinese, Greek, Jewish, and Lebanese ancestry began to involve themselves in business ventures such as sponging to restaurants and from wholesale and retail dry goods to furniture and laundry services. Ordinary people, meanwhile, began to find better wage employment in New Providence and Florida. But their exercising new options still did not break the back of established power. Growing protest against control likewise failed to break its hold. Neither did the establishment of the Government High School, in 1925, the formation of The ‘Ballot Party’ in the late 1920s, nor labourers taking to the streets of New Providence in 1942. In the contest between ruler and ruled the terrain in need of control was becoming more complex.
What enabled the ruling group to continue to hold sway was their ability to stay focused on strategic keys to control. They targeted retaining command of decision-making for the community.
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